According to the tax statement, the Omidyar Network has contributed a total of $400,000 to American Compass since 2020. (In reality, Omidyar has donated $500,000, including forthcoming installments.) The Hewlett Foundation—a longtime supporter of National Public Radio—has accounted for more than one-third of American Compass’ total public support, giving a combined $1,486,000 over the same period, with an extra $475,000 dose this January.
That’s more than Hewlett gave to NPR or the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the same timeframe.
The donations are striking because American Compass is a partner organization in Project 2025, a controversial right-wing think tank that has been building the policy and personnel firmament for a second Trump administration.
But y’know, you gotta vote for the “lesser evil”, regardless of the lesser evil’s tactics, regardless of where the lesser evil spends their money, regardless of who the lesser evil genocides in their homes-- you just gotta voot, and voot bloo, no matter whoooo 🙄
I am not saying Democrat are good.
I am saying Republicans are worse
If you really believe that, I have a stolen-and-settled bridge in Kansas to sell you. They’re on the same fucking team, just playing a never-ending ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine-- and honestly, ever since y’all first started boiling the choices down to “support the segregationist cracker who penned the original pipeline Crime Bill of '94” or “support a literal reality show host”, that was when I started fighting the greater evil.
Amerika is that greater evil. You will never put up an even decent candidate. There will always be a legacy of racism, of genocide, of chauvinist exceptionalism, of western capitalism. No matter what color tie the cracker bastard wears, they will always be the greater evil that deserves to be fought, tooth and nail.
Cracker ass.
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Okay cracker; I hope you get Replaced
I don’t know how people who say shit like this can take themselves seriously. What exactly have the democrats done to protect you, to protect us?
Fuck. All.
At least in the evil PRC ruled by “Xinnie the Pooh”, you can go to school sans your aforementioned worry of getting mowed down.
Tens if not hundreds of millions of people across the world, whom the Democrats have bombed, starved, exploited and murdered exactly the same as the Republicans have, beg to differ.
This “Democrats vs Republicans” idea is a false dichotomy. Democrats and Republicans are not two different opposing parties, they are two wings of the same uniparty. Voting for one is the same as voting for the other. They each continue each others’ fascist, imperialist, genocidal policies. Republicans could not do what they do without Democrats and vice versa. By continuing to buy into the “lesser evil” narrative you are enabling them to keep pulling this trick on you over and over again.
If there is a “lesser evil” it is that which most weakens and destabilizes the US, that which creates the maximum amount of internal conflict, of political-economic and social dysfunction, thus minimizing the harm they are able to inflict on the rest of the world.
In fact, democrats are the party that tends to start more wars statistically https://thebaffler.com/latest/democrats-are-the-real-party-of-war
A knife 12 inches in your chest and a knife “only” 6 inches in your chest…
… damn… choice be hard.
Damn, I never thought of controlled opposition politics as being pretty much the same as the good-cop-bad-cop routine, ty.
And i am saying, again that by supporting Democrats you literally support Republicans and right wing think tanks. By voting for and donating to a group that funds fascism they have been tricking you into doing what you are claiming we are.
The. Democratic. Party. Funds. The. Fascists. Then they tell you vote dem, to fight the guys they helped put there.
I’m not saying i have an easy answer. Im just trying to show you that you don’t fully see the problem yet.
I disagree with the premise as we can see vast differences between red and blue states and if democrats were really secret republicans, jan 6 would have been the endgame.
But I do agree that democrats aren’t a good answer. But until there is a good one, I am going to advocate for harm mitigation while working with orgs to push more progressive candidates at the local and state level.
As opposed to arguing for voting for republicans because Reasons or occasion acknowledging the end goal is the country with the most guns and nukes to have a violent civil war